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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:42:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        sprice@hiwaay.net (Steve Price)
Cc:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu, richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -current failed
Message-ID:  <199610281842.KAA19478@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <3273C758.3F54BC7E@hiwaay.net> from Steve Price at "Oct 27, 96 02:34:32 pm"

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> Chuck Robey wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Doing a make world automatically does the make obj for you.  Make cleandir
> > kills them.  If there isn't a obj directory avaialble when the make
> > starts, then the obj's fall into the source directories.  One very common
> > error is the do make clean, and think your objs are really clean.  They
> > aren't, the .depend files survive, and cause grief.
> > 
> 
> Attached is a patch to /usr/share/mk/bsd.dep.mk that I use to get rid
> of the .depend file when make clean is done.  I didn't commit it b/c I
> don't think everybody (or even the majority) wants this, but you
> might give it a try if you like the functionality.

Ugly hack, that is what ``make cleandir'' does for you, thus your patch
is not needed.  ``make cleandist'' tears done and rebuilds the obj tree
and links.



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